MAVEN Spacecraft Takes First Deep Dip

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft arrived at the Red Planet back in September. Its mission is to analyze the martian atmosphere in hopes of learning more about what had happened to it, and why Mars is no longer able to sustain liquid water on the surface. Part of this year-long mission will include five low dips toward the planet’s surface in order to study the lower aspects of the upper atmosphere.